Martin Tobias
Managing Partner at Incisive Ventures
Spokane, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Pre-Seed venture fund investing in technology companies that reduce friction at scale.
Co-Founder
2016
My brother and I started a non-profit to enable e-commerce companies to seamlessly add reforestation as a product to their offerings.
Founder
2006
The first angel group in the US to focus exclusively on clean tech and sustainability. Currently very active.
E8 Angels is an investment company that provides capital, guidance, and networking opportunities to early stage cleantech companies.
Founder and Manager
1996
Investment holding company. Occasional Mid market office and residential developer. Holding company for private equity and angel investments. Over 200 early-stage start-up investments and over a dozen LP interests in top tier Venture Funds.
Chief Executive Officer
2017 - 2020
Raised two rounds of financing, grew revenue from zero to >$6m/year in two years.
Board of Directors
2000 - 2015
Leading messaging security company protecting over 2 billion subscribers around the world. Lead the analysis of anti-spam market for Ignition Partners leading to the investment in Cloudmark.
Cloudmark provides carrier-grade messaging security and infrastructure solutions for fixed, mobile, and social networks.
Raised $39,000,000.00 from NGP Capital, Industry Ventures, Summit Partners and Ignition Partners.
Chief Executive Officer
2009 - 2013
Leading technology provider of Group Buying and social commerce infrastructure. The only patent protected platform. Over 150 deployments including NBC, Univision, Fox, Hearst, Microsoft. Negotiated strategic partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and others. Sold to nCrowd in April 2013
CEO and Founder
2008 - 2013
Local market place software solutions including kashless.org better classifieds and tippr.com white label group commerce. Company pivoted to focus on Tippr. Tippr sold to nCrowd April 2013. Kashless, Inc. soon after the sale.
Venture Partner
2002 - 2010
Generation of deal flow, working with entrepreneurs to vet business ideas, doing investments, sitting on the board to help grow the company.
Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Chairman and CEO
2005 - 2008
Tried saving the world by creating renewable fuels that reduce our dependence on petroleum. Initially invested in the company, then joined as CEO as it became clear the company really was going to transform the economics of biodiesel and oil was going to go crazy. Raised over $250M in financing including $112M in project financing and working capital. Built a 5 M gallon proof of concept refinery, then a 100M production scale. Built pipeline of three more projects (China, Argentina, Hawaii), but financial markets closed in 2008. Company currently profitable and growing.